Access to Information of College Students via Social Networking Service

Abstract

As an internet-based media, social networking service functions as a virtual community that is made up of two main components: a set of social actors and sets of dyadicties among them. It allows users to communicate with each other through various services such as friend adding, chatting, emailing, picture and movie sharing on demand regardless of space and time. Despite its recent emergence, this service has produced great influences on the communication in a wide range of fields among users, particularly the college students whose engagement has proved more crucial than any others. Based on our survey results, this paper provides a brief description of the situation of college students’ information access via social networking sites.